The great toilet paper panic is back as Japan starts stockpiling

Panic buying is back in Japan. As the U.S.-Israeli-Iran conflict rattles oil markets, Japanese consumers are stockpiling ...

Hop Into These 14 Rabbit Holes This Spring

Reynolds’ weekly column exploring songs and scenes at the intersection of music and digital culture, separating shitpost ...
The Del Norte Triplicate

Cutting Aluminum Rod

Cutting Aluminum Rod. Jewishness was essential for shooting hockey? Is dupe works? Tina still rising. So serenely beautiful! The lockout really over? Appreciate psychology as to p ...
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Western Japan cities hike tourism-linked fees to deal with overtourism

This photo taken on April 10, 2025, shows Himeji Castle in Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture in western Japan. (Kyodo) KYOTO (Kyodo) -- The city government of Kyoto raised its lodging tax for people staying at ...
Yahoo Finance

Japanese companies are paying older workers to sit by a window and do nothing—while Western CEOs demand super-AI productivity just to keep your job

As corporate America and Europe drag workers back to five days in the office and squeeze for ever more efficiency, Japan is quietly paying thousands of older employees to show up, sit down, and do ...
Nippon

Japan Toilet Survey Tracks Use of Rear Spray Function

A survey in Japan found that 53% of respondents say they use the rear spray function on their bidet toilets almost every time. The results of the survey were announced in January by the Japan Sanitary ...
The National Interest

A Japanese Toilet Maker Could Be the Next Big Thing in AI

Japanese toilet manufacturer TOTO has extensive experience in ceramics design—processes that could also be used to manufacture the next generation of computer chips. Japan’s advanced toilets and ...

Bored of peace?

On today’s Playbook Podcast: Jack and Megan Messerly discuss the holy trinity of war, peace and Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Mint

Manu S. Pillai: A secret history of the toilet, from assassins to ‘poop suitcases’

Death comes for people in the strangest of places, in the most unexpected ways. And in 1016 CE, legend has it, it came for Edmund Ironside, king of the English, while he was seated on his toilet. The ...
The Straits Times

Heavy snowfall hits northern and western Japan, Tokyo also blanketed by snow

TOKYO – Heavy snowfall hit a wide swathe of Japan along the Sea of Japan coast on Feb 8, while the capital city centre was also lightly blanketed by snow. Japan’s weather agency warned of heavy snow ...
Mint

Clogged toilet grounds JetBlue flight for hours as staff refuse to remove poop, stranded flyers offer help

A JetBlue flight from Philadelphia to Boston was grounded for hours Saturday after staff refused to remove the poop clogging a busted toilet, leading to its cancellation. The JetBlue Flight 260 was ...
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Heavy snowfall hits northern, western Japan, Tokyo also blanketed by snow

TOKYO - Heavy snowfall hit a wide swath of Japan on Sunday, particularly in the west and along the Sea of Japan coast, while central Tokyo was lightly blanketed. The snowfall disrupted traffic in ...